Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting graphicsmagick package, versions [,1.3.27)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.24% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GRAPHICSMAGICK-2380555
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed30 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-13777  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade graphicsmagick to version 1.3.27 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). GraphicsMagick 1.3.26 has a denial of service issue in ReadXBMImage() in a coders/xbm.c "Read hex image data" version==10 case that results in the reader not returning; it would cause large amounts of CPU and memory consumption although the crafted file itself does not request it.

CVSS Base Scores

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